Concepts of Price Elasticities of transport Demand and Recent empirical Estimates

Concepts of Price Elasticities of transport Demand and Recent empirical Estimates

The authors consider various concepts of demand elasticities, and several improvements in the methodology of transport demand studies are described. They also summarise the results for over sixty recent studies, and identify a number of problems along with suggested priorities for future research.

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